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Allow us to disable tracking
Mar 7, 2025
I would appreciate if your users are able to disable tracking.
Should we block it with a content blocker the site is incredibly slowing down as well.
I am speaking of bugnsag, Google Analytics and Algolia Search Tracking.
As I haven't made any agreements to the user tracking, I wish this to be made compliant with local EU regulations.
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Wanted to clarify a few things here:
We've never used Google Analytics. We use Plausible community edition, which doesn't store IP address (so is GDPR compliant).
We use Bugsnag for tracking errors, but we don't track user ID there, so there's no way to connect those. I just checked and we do track IP address there! I'm disabling it ( https://docs.bugsnag.com/platforms/javascript/configuration-options/#collectuserip ).
Algolia search tracking - we don't use this, we use Typesense which is open source and hosted on a server we control. We're not storing any data in that server related to users.
I'll see about disabling Bugsnag altogether too. I'd rather we have those error reports from everyone, but in a compliant way that doesn't store any user data. Those should only be sent when a bug occurs, not on every request.